[londons_explore]

I think it's more people speculating about another team or project.

For example "I bet we'll get boatloads of patent disputes from Samsung if we get the next Nexus phone made by LG", said by someone on the Google search team who is just speculating based on public news reports.

Later in court, Samsung could use that as evidence that someone in the company had knowledge of violating patents (which increases damages 3x).

[jonas21]

For a more concrete example, a Google engineer said that they should license Java for Android in an email (without having any sort of legal background on whether it was necessary), and this got dragged into court as evidence in the Oracle API copyright case.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/apr/20/oracle-go...

[cjmcqueen]

Yes, this!